Cardinals chose a new pope to lead the world's 1.4 billion Catholics on Thursday, sending up white smoke from the Sistine Chapel on their second day of voting in conclave. Tens of thousands of people packed in St Peter's Square cheered, applauded and wept as the smoke appeared, while the...
World leaders rue loss of former Pontiff Benedict XVI
Russia's President Vladimir Putin said he was "an eminent religious and state figure, a convinced defender of traditional Christian values".
